Description
Original remastered DLP, plus an additional LP of companion audio featuring previously un-released studio outtakes on 180 gram vinyl. Also includes a top loading-die cut wraparound insert/slipcase.
Led Zeppelin returned from a nearly two-year hiatus in 1975 with Physical Graffiti, a sprawling, ambitious double album. Zeppelin treat many of the songs on Physical Graffiti as forays into individual styles, only occasionally synthesizing sounds, notably on the tense, Eastern-influenced Kashmir. With John Paul Jones galloping keyboard, Trampled Underfoot ranks as their funkiest metallic grind, while Houses of the Holy is as effervescent as pre-Beatles pop and Down by the Seaside is the closest theyve come to country. Even the heavier blues — the 11-minute In My Time of Dying, the tightly wound Custard Pie, and the monstrous epic The Rover — are subtly shaded, even if theyre thunderously loud. Most of these heavy rockers are isolated on the first album, with the second half of Physical Graffiti sounding a little like a scrap heap of experiments, jams, acoustic workouts, and neo-covers. This may not be as consistent as the first platter, but its quirks are entirely welcome, not just because they encompass the mean, decadent Sick Again, but the heartbreaking Ten Years Gone and the utterly charming acoustic rock n roll of Boogie With Stu and Black Country Woman. Yes, some of this could be labelled as filler, but like any great double album, its appeal lies in its great sprawl, since it captures elements of the bands personality rarely showcased elsewhere — and even at its worst, Physical Graffiti towers above its hard rock peers of the mid-70s.
Track listing:
1. Custard Pie
2. The Rover
3. In My Time Of Dying
4. Houses Of The Holy
5. Trampled Under Foot
6. Kashmir
7. In The Light
8. Bron-Yr-Aur
9. Down By The Seaside
10. Ten Years Gone
11. Night Flight
12. The Wanton Song
13. Boogie With Stu
14. Black Country Woman
15. Sick Again
16. Brandy And Coke (Trampled Under Foot)-initial rough mix
17. Sick Again-early version
18. In My Time Of Dying-initial rough mix
19. Houses Of The Holy-rough mix with overdubs
20. Everybody Makes It Through (In The Light)-early version
21. Boogie With Stu-sunset sound mix
22. Dirving Though Kashmir (Kashmir)-rough orchestra mix